Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
Insight
The Object Management Group (OMG) held its first Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) workshop in Orlando, Florida, last week. The emphasis was on discussing EAI issues, and the workshop was heavily attended by CTOs and senior technical people from Fortune 1000 companies.
In last week's Advisor, I mentioned that the Chinese information agency is encouraging government agencies in China to use Red Flag Linux, rather than Microsoft Windows. I want to follow up with some more general comments on Linux this week.
SOFTWARE PROJECTS BEING OUTSOURCED
This Advisor will arrive right in the midst of Microsoft's introduction of Windows 2000 Professional. Microsoft's marketing machine will be going full tilt, and the media, which is always looking for an easy story, will be talking about it almost non-stop.
Volume XII, No. 2;
February 2000
WINDOWS 2000, DNA 2000, AND COM+ by Paul Harmon
Microsoft isn't the superior marketing organization it is often made out to be.